CHEMISTS' RESPONSIBILITY.
A JUDGE SPEAKS PLAINLY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, August 21. Dealing with a ca?o at tho Supremo Court this morning, involving a cnaTge of procuring a noxious drug for an unlawful purpose, Mr. Justice Cooper took oCoasion to make. &omo remarks on tho responsibility of chemists and their assistants in tho matter. "I wish it to be distinctly understood," said his Honour, "that if a chemist or any person supplies a young man with a substance, oven though it is innocuous, with-tho intention that tho mixture should be used for the purposa of procuring an unlawful object, it is an offence, making both the c/hemist and the purchaser liable to prosecution. Tht-y aro equally guilty if tho intention exists." Ilis Honour- added that the experience in Auckland courts, as well as elsewhere, was that in somo places it was not -at all difficult to obtain even noxious substances.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1835, 22 August 1913, Page 4
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150CHEMISTS' RESPONSIBILITY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1835, 22 August 1913, Page 4
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